Progress is not only about doing more of the same, as demonstrated in the section on knowledge exchange, which is a celebration of the many ways in which UK academics personally engage with industry, governments, and the charitable sector.

Such evidence stems from the second national survey of academic engagement, convened by the National Centre to endow the sector with a robust means to understand differences in collaboration across academic disciplines. To complement the survey, this section follows with the detailed experiences of members in building long-term collaborations, and in using collaborations to improve ground-level process operations in diverse sectors.